Infrastructure Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 269 257
Rank change year-on-year -37 -12 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 92 193 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.81% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.86% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 136 233
10th Percentile £348 £379 £362
25th Percentile £444 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +1.05% +4.97%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £560
90th Percentile £650 £594 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £46.15
% change year-on-year - +40.86% +74.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +26 28 £550 +20.55% 13
North of England -29 21 £450 -10.00% 14
Midlands +8 20 £550 +22.22% 10
West Midlands +2 12 £550 +22.22% 5
South West +21 11 £550 +12.82% 7
Yorkshire -19 11 £500 -9.09% 3
North West -4 9 £350 -22.22% 9
East Midlands +15 7 £625 +19.05% 5
East of England +9 4 £488 -7.14% 1
Scotland +28 3 £550 +29.41% 1
Wales +21 3 £600 +33.33%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East +18 1 - - 2
Infrastructure Manager
UK

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Infrastructure Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 34 (36.96%) Project Management
2 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.74%) Finance
4 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (18.48%) Agile
5 17 (18.48%) Azure
5 17 (18.48%) Data Centre
6 16 (17.39%) Windows
7 15 (16.30%) Migration
8 14 (15.22%) Project Delivery
8 14 (15.22%) Active Directory
9 12 (13.04%) PRINCE2
9 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
10 10 (10.87%) Waterfall
10 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
11 9 (9.78%) WAN
11 9 (9.78%) Risk Management
11 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (8.70%) Telecoms
12 8 (8.70%) Degree
12 8 (8.70%) ITIL
12 8 (8.70%) Budget Management
13 7 (7.61%) Citrix
13 7 (7.61%) Firewall
13 7 (7.61%) Change Management
13 7 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (6.52%) Cisco
14 6 (6.52%) SharePoint

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.26%) nginx
4 2 (2.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) Azure
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.26%) SaaS
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.17%) AWS
5 2 (2.17%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.78%) WAN
2 7 (7.61%) Firewall
3 5 (5.43%) Wireless
4 4 (4.35%) LAN
5 3 (3.26%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (3.26%) Network Security
5 3 (3.26%) SAN
5 3 (3.26%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.26%) WLAN
6 2 (2.17%) VPN
7 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.09%) VLAN
7 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.26%) MySQL
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) JIRA
General
1 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.74%) Finance
3 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Law
7 3 (3.26%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Local Government
9 1 (1.09%) Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Electronics
9 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.09%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) EDI
2 2 (2.17%) LDAP
2 2 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.26%) CCTV
2 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.09%) BYOD
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) EPoS
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.09%) PKI
4 1 (1.09%) Robotics
4 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.39%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (3.26%) Android
4 3 (3.26%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.26%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.26%) Unix
4 3 (3.26%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.17%) VMS
5 2 (2.17%) Windows 2000
5 2 (2.17%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.09%) AIX
6 1 (1.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) Project Management
2 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (18.48%) Agile
4 15 (16.30%) Migration
5 14 (15.22%) Project Delivery
6 12 (13.04%) PRINCE2
7 10 (10.87%) Waterfall
8 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (9.78%) Risk Management
9 8 (8.70%) Budget Management
9 8 (8.70%) ITIL
10 7 (7.61%) Change Management
10 7 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (5.43%) Change Control
11 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (5.43%) Line Management
11 5 (5.43%) Resource Management
12 4 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (4.35%) Project Planning
12 4 (4.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.26%) SQL
2 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) Degree
2 5 (5.43%) PMP
2 5 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) PMO
3 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) vSphere
3 1 (1.09%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.26%) PaperCut
1 3 (3.26%) SCCM
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.09%) OPNET
Vendors
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.61%) Citrix
3 6 (6.52%) Cisco
4 4 (4.35%) VMware
5 3 (3.26%) Aruba
5 3 (3.26%) HP
5 3 (3.26%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.26%) Sage
5 3 (3.26%) Veeam
5 3 (3.26%) WatchGuard
6 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.17%) Juniper
6 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.09%) Commvault
7 1 (1.09%) Dell
7 1 (1.09%) EMC
7 1 (1.09%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.09%) IBM
7 1 (1.09%) Nokia